Cyborg America

In Sherry Turkle’s article “Can You Hear Me Now?” Turkle shows just how reliant people are on technology in the present day world. Whether it be from a Blackberry to contact a friend, or laptops to search email and hard to find answers, Turkle believes we as people, have lost the aspect of being a human. Throughout her article, Turkle gives five main focus points on which she thinks has the most valid points that have effect on the reader. I am one of the readers she had effect on.
In the article, Turkle has five main points she wants to address to her audience, showing just how neglective we have become of our peers, even though we have the world in our hands. During one part, Turkle tackles the argument of people being too dependent on wireless devices rather than a close friend or perhaps a dictionary. “We are learning to see ourselves as cyborgs, at one with our devices” (Turkle 274). Turkle is right in this aspect, we have become way to reliant on what he have strapped on belts rather than wit and mind power we have been building up since grade school, but this is not the only thing Turkle is right about.
To me, Turkle has shown what is wrong with today’s society in a very humorous way. Her constant use of imagery and different examples are perfect for setting the scene in each of the five points she sets out to show modern day. I think when Turkle talks about a kid being in a city with a cell phone and having security you know she understands the importance of security of a young mind going through unfamiliar places. Turkle also goes on to tell that even though security is a good thing, having a kid know the sense of being completely independent is possibly more important than having the said security at all. This article by Sherry Turkle has to be one of the few articles I have read where I have agreed with everything the author has said.